International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age
- This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy – international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside.
Author details: | Dominik SteigerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288654 |
ISBN: | 9780429288654 |
ISBN: | 9780367230548 |
ISBN: | 9781032082554 |
Title of parent work (English): | Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting |
Subtitle (English): | big data, privacy and interferences with the political process |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Place of publishing: | London |
Editor(s): | Normann Witzleb, Moira Paterson, Janice Richardson |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/12/18 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Release date: | 2023/03/30 |
Tag: | Computer Science; Humanities; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences |
Number of pages: | 28 |
First page: | 71 |
Last Page: | 98 |
Organizational units: | Juristische Fakultät / Öffentliches Recht |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Referiert |